Multi-level Domica–Baradla cave system (Slovakia, Hungary): Middle Pliocene–Pleistocene evolution and implications for the denudation chronology of the Western Carpathians

Bella, Pavel; Bosák, Pavel; Braucher, Régis; Pruner, Petr; Hercman, Helena; Minár, Jozef; Veselský, Michal; Holec, Juraj; Léanni, Laëtitia

doi:10.1016/j.geomorph.2018.10.002

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“…The presence of magnetically reversed sediments therefore indicates a minimum age for cave alluviation of 0.78 Ma. With a stacked series of normal and reversed‐polarity sediments, this method can be used to date caves back several million years (Farrant et al ., 1995; Stock et al ., 2005; Hajna et al ., 2010; Rossi et al ., 2016; Bella et al ., 2019). As a dating tool, palaeomagnetism suffers from two main limitations: first, it requires suitable fine‐grained sediments within the cave; second, it is a correlative tool that cannot yield absolute ages for stratigraphic units except when magnetic reversals are identified and reliably correlated with the global record.…”

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“…Many studies have related the genesis of relict cave levels and their subsequent abandonment to base‐level dynamics, driven by river incision in fluvial valleys or sea‐level oscillations in coastal areas (Plan et al ., 2009; Piccini and Landelli, 2011; Audra and Palmer, 2013; Calvet et al ., 2015; Columbu et al ., 2015; Nehme et al ., 2016; Pennos et al ., 2016; Harmand et al ., 2017; Bella et al ., 2019). The rate of river incision is influenced by several variables.…”

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Reconstructing fluvial incision rates based on palaeo‐water tables in chalk karst networks along the Seine valley (Normandy, France)

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Farrant

Ballesteros

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Quantifying rates of river incision and continental uplift over Quaternary timescales offer the potential for modelling landscape change due to tectonic and climatic forcing. In many areas, river terraces form datable archives that help constrain the timing and rate of valley incision. However, old river terraces, with high‐level deposits, are prone to weathering and often lack datable material. Where valleys are incised through karst areas, caves and sediments can be used to reconstruct the landscape evolution because they can record the elevation of palaeo‐water tables and contain preserved datable material. In Normandy (N. France), the Seine River is entrenched into an extensive karstic chalk plateau. Previous estimates of valley incision were hampered by the lack of preserved datable fluvial terraces. A stack of abandoned phreatic cave passages preserved in the sides of the Seine valley can be used to reconstruct the landscape evolution of the region. Combining geomorphological observations, palaeomagnetic and U/Th dating of speleothem and sediments in eight caves along the Lower Seine valley, we have constructed a new age model for cave development and valley incision. Six identified cave levels up to ∼100 m a.s.l. were formed during the last ~1 Ma, coeval with the incision of the Seine River. Passage morphologies indicate that the caves formed in a shallow phreatic/epiphreatic setting, modified by sediment influxes. The valley's maximum age is constrained by the occurrence of late Pliocene marine sand. Palaeomagnetic dating of cave infills indicates that the highest‐level caves were being infilled prior to 1.1 Ma. The evidence from the studied caves, complemented by fluvial terrace sequences, indicates that rapid river incision occurred during marine isotope stage (MIS) 28 to 20 (0.8–1 Ma), with maximal rates of ~0.30 m ka−1, dropping to ~0.08 m ka−1 between MIS 20–11 (0.8–0.4 Ma) and 0.05 m ka−1 from MIS 5 to the present time. © 2020 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.

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Reconstructing fluvial incision rates based on palaeo‐water tables in chalk karst networks along the Seine valley (Normandy, France)

Nehmé

Farrant

Ballesteros

et al. 2020

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“…Systematic investigation of relationships between tectonic uplift, denudation rate, and topography is missing here. The high spatio‐temporal variability of the published denudation, accommodation, and uplift rates across the Western Carpathians and the adjacent Pannonian Basin (e.g., Bella et al., 2019; Jacko et al., 2021; Šujan et al., 2017, 2018, 2021; Zuchiewicz, 2009) argues against a neotectonic (Pliocene–Quaternary) tendency to steady state. Due to a dominant extensional regime, the highest differential vertical neotectonic movements are supposed on the boundary with the Pannonian basin (Šujan et al., 2021) and on the boundaries of small intramountain basins (e.g., Kováč et al., 2011).…”

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Physically based morphostructural land surface segmentation: Case of the Alps and Western Carpathians

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Bielik

2021

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“…Scientific research has continued since then, at varying intensities. Present-day investigations focus on cave genesis theories (Gyuricza and Sásdi 2009;Veress and Unger 2015;Bosák et al 2004;Bella et al 2019), hydrogeologic studies (Borbás et al 2011;Gruber et al 2012), exploration for new passages at the lower, inundated levels, speleobiology and speleothems (Zámbó et al 2002;Galbács et al 2011;Czuppon et al 2018). Today, cave depositions are studied principally because of their palaeoclimatic significance (Demény et al 2017).…”

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Geological Heritage, Geotourism and Local Development in Aggtelek National Park (NE Hungary)

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We examine how geoconservation and geotourism can help the local development of an economically underdeveloped karst area. First, we briefly present the geoheritage of Aggtelek National Park, which largely overlaps the area of the Aggtelek Karst. The area is built up predominantly of Triassic limestones and dolomites. It is a typical temperate zone, medium mountain karst area with doline-dotted karst plateaus and tectonic-fluvial valleys. Besides caves, the past history of iron mining also enriches its geoheritage. Aggtelek National Park was set aside in 1985. The caves of Aggtelek Karst and Slovak Karst became part of the UNESCO World Heritage in 1995 due to the high diversity of cave types and morphology. Socially, the area of the national park is a disadvantaged border region in NE Hungary. Baradla Cave has always been a popular tourist destination, but visitor numbers fell significantly after 1985. Tourism is largely focused on Baradla Cave, and thus it can be considered "sensu lato" geotourism. Reasons for the changes in visitor numbers are discussed in this paper. Tourist motivations, the significance of geotourism and other tourism-related issues were explored in our study by questionnaire surveys and semi-structured interviews. Furthermore, the balance of geoconservation versus bioconservation is also examined. Finally, the relationship of geotourism, nature protection and local development is discussed. We conclude that the socioeconomic situation of the Aggtelek Karst microregion is relatively better than that of the neighbouring regions, and this relative welfare is due to the existence of the national park and Baradla Cave.

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Multi-level Domica–Baradla cave system (Slovakia, Hungary): Middle Pliocene–Pleistocene evolution and implications for the denudation chronology of the Western Carpathians

Cited by 21 publications

References 37 publications

Reconstructing fluvial incision rates based on palaeo‐water tables in chalk karst networks along the Seine valley (Normandy, France)

Reconstructing fluvial incision rates based on palaeo‐water tables in chalk karst networks along the Seine valley (Normandy, France)

Physically based morphostructural land surface segmentation: Case of the Alps and Western Carpathians

Geological Heritage, Geotourism and Local Development in Aggtelek National Park (NE Hungary)

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